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Politico hires Ward to cover trade

June 3, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Oliver Ward

Oliver Ward has been hired by Politico to be the lead author of “Morning Trade.”

He has been at Agri-Pulse, where he has been serving as trade editor, delivering scoops on Trump’s tariffstrade pacts and moves on food aid programs.

Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at Inside U.S. Trade and wrote on trade and economics at the Peterson Institute for Economics.

Ward — a native of the UK — moved to the U.S. in 2018 after several years in Argentina and Spain. He studied history and sociology at the University of Leeds and received a masters in journalism and digital storytelling at American University.

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